Quotes About Existence

Every thing thinks, but according to its complexity. If this is so, then stones also think...and this stone thinks only I stone, I stone, I stone. But perhaps it cannot even say I. It thinks: Stone, stone, stone... God enjoys being All, as this stone enjoys being almost nothing, but since it knows no other way of being, it is pleased with its own way, eternally satisfied with itself.

If the eye could see the demons that people the universe, existence would be impossible. —Talmud, Berakhot, 6

And he continues: "Thus it is increasingly necessary you recognize that other congregations of material bodies exist elsewhere in the universe, like this of our world, which the ether encircles in eager embrace

Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus. -Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.

If God existed, he would be a library.

Thus God knows the world, because He conceived it in His mind, as if from the outside, before it was created, and we do not know its rule, because we live inside it, having found it already made.

The thing whose address I lost is not the End, it's the Beginning. Not the object to be possessed but the subject that possesses me. Misery

Pengetahuan Tuhan mewujud dalam pengetahuan manusia

you must not worry if they do not yet exist, because that does not mean they will not exist later. And I say to you that God wishes them to be, and certainly they already are in His mind, even if my friend from Occam denies that ideas exist in such a way; and I do not say this because we can determine the divine nature but precisely because we cannot set any limit to it.

omnis mundi creatura quasi liber et pictura nobis est in speculum

Among the many certainties whose lack he complained of, one alone is present, and it is that all things appear to us as they appear to us, and it is impossible for them to appear otherwise.

Yes. Mankind can't endure the thought that the world was born by chance, by mistake, just because four brainless atoms bumped into one another on a slippery highway. So a cosmic plot has to be found—God, angels, devils. Synarchy performs the same function on a lesser scale.

and I loved the girl precisely because she existed, and I was happy, not envious, that she existed.

It seems that fictional worlds are parasitic on the real world.

Mundus senescit, ? ?????? ??????.

Claro, y Dios se divierte como un loco. Decidió ser impensable sólo para demostrar que Anselmo y Gaunilo eran estúpidos. Qué motivo más sublime para la creación, qué me digo, para el acto mismo en virtud del cual Dios determina su propio ser. Todo para poder denunciar la estupidez cósmica.

Así pues, para definir el ser, hay que decir es, y usar de ese modo el término definido en la definición».

His mouth was almost incapable of managing a smile, and altogether he gave the impression of dealing with the pain of existence out of some sort of distasteful duty.

We lists because we don't want to die.

I perceive that they are good and beautiful, that they exist according to their own rules of proportion, that they differ in genus and species from all other genera and species, that they are defined by their own number, that they are true to their order, that they seek their specific place according to their weight.

In order for there to be a mirror of the world, it is necessary that the world have a form.

Así es como conoce Dios el mundo, porque lo ha concebido en su mente, o sea, en cierto sentido, desde fuera, antes de crearlo, mientras que nosotros no logramos conocer su regla, porque vivimos dentro de él y lo hemos encontrado ya hecho.

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Throughout our lives, after all, we look for a story of our origins, to tell us why we were born and why we have lived.